28 June 2011 - In and Around Victoria Falls

No traveling today - just some local sights. We are staying at Maramba River Lodge another night.

We enjoyed breakfast next to the Maramba river (a tributary to the Zambezi), and spotted a crocodile an a hippo.

We returned to the border to pay for insurance and toll - the relevant persons were not working when we passed through the border last night... The we went to view the Falls from the Zambian side (another $20 per person - I guess the Zimbabwean and Zambian authorities are comparing notes). More awesomeness. The gorge is narrower on this side, so the view of the falls is even closer, and even wetter. Once again - the spectacle defies description. We also managed to get alongside the Zambezi river just about 30 meters up-stream of the falls and took some pictures there. It made me think of those cartoons you see where the characters are floating down a river on a log and suddenly hear a distant rumbling and wonder what it is...

After a few hours at the falls we went in search of a geochache (see http://geocaching.com if you don't know what geocaching is). Xerxes had sent us on a mission, and we could not let him down. We found the cache quite easily (Kevin was the eagle-eye) and we dropped two trackables and picked up two others. The cache was right at the end of a zip-line that runs about 150 meters over the gorge in which the Zambezi river runs after plunging down the falls. The scenery around the gorge is just breath taking.



We made a turn through Livingstone. Not much to report here though. We browsed a local market and filled up on fuel.